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To those of you who have paid attention to my releases as of late you may have noticed some common elements in the "non-trance" songs mainly a characteristic of "swirling" endless sounds, and strong arpeggios (not the simple take a chord apart with a plug in type, but the sequence each note by hand that tend to have "non-standard" chords.) Well one of the reasons I have spent so much of the last few years "studying" trance specifically--and those who know Wintermute trance know it is not the "typical" trance that harkens back to those some of the earlier examples of trance that gave those familiar chord progressions and beats: namely songs like The KLF's "Last train to Trancentral"--is because Trance like it or not, follows a truely more "classical" form and does not limit itself to that form. This is in strong contrast to most other of the electronic forms that are extremely narrow in their form and scope. This is not to say that those other forms have no merrit, just that are very limited in what they can evolve into musically. That said, I have been experimenting with take what I would call the "dark art of trance"--meaning: some of the form, the mood and most of all "the flow"--and apply it to other genres. The most recent example of this is my Tribute to Muse's "Knights of Cydonia": Wintermute's "Fall of House Cydonia". I hope this new track picks up on the tragic vibe that is in Muse's now classic and builds on it, the ide being that "Fall of House Cydonia" is a continuation of the story in the original. There may or may not be a version(s) of this track with Lyrics. So we will see how this experiment works out listener wise, currently the song is still a WIP, a least a bit, but I am fairly happy with the latest mix: "The Knights of Antioch" mix which slows the original one down just a bit... 

Enjoy

WM